“I can confirm that a shooting took place this morning but we are still investigating the matter,” he said.

In a separate incident, a man was reportedly shot and killed at a restaurant in Erasmuskloof, in the east of Pretoria, last year. Brooklyn police spokesperson Captain Colette Weilbach said two men were sitting at a table inside the Coco Bistro restaurant in Castle Walk Centre when an unknown armed man approached them at about 7.30pm.

“The man fired a shot at one of the men at the table and immediately fled the scene,” Weilbach said.

She added the victim died in the restaurant. An eyewitness, Lisa Buys, said she and a friend were having coffee at the restaurant when she suddenly heard an extremely loud noise.